Still, we never expected the gloves to come off quite as they did in Ryan Gavin’s latest interview with Business Insider, as Microsoft’s Surface General Manager singled out the iPad Pro as a “clear example” of Apple “following” his company’s suit.

Gavin (barely) stopped short of declaring the rival device a clone or copycat, stressing that “if we had been looking” at the competition, “we wouldn’t have made a product like Surface Pro or Surface Book”, and “when Surface initially launched everyone was skeptical, including them.”

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Adrian has had an insatiable passion for writing since he was in school and found himself writing philosophical essays about the meaning of life and the differences between light and dark beer. Later, he realized this was pretty much his only marketable skill, so he first created a personal blog (in Romanian) and then discovered his true calling, which is writing about all things tech (in English).